How to Manually Enable AirPrint on any Printer

AirPrint has truly been one of the best features in iOS 4.2. In case you still don’t know what AirPrint is, it is a wireless technology that lets you print any document from iPhone directly on compatible printers. But if you don’t want to purchase a new printer you can use this guide to use AirPrint with your existing printer.

I followed the steps to set up and start the service on a windows xp pro machine. The machine is connected to my network and has a printer hooked up to it. I share the printer to my families four laptops to print wireless. My iphone is saying no printers found. The windows firewall on the machine didn’t pop anything up when starting the service. Is there anything else I need to do to make the iphone see the printer?

@Tim
from what i understand you performed these steps on the machine to which printer is directly connected. the firewall may not produce an alert in case it is turned off. in my case firewall was off and kaspersky did not produce any issues. i tested these instructions on the same OS as you.

let me know what you see on command prompt after executing the commands. apart from that, also go to users and enable guest account.

And you’re welcome.

Randy

February 8, 2011, 11:13 am

Great step by step guide, however i found an app that makes all this very simple and it is called PrintBureau. It magically enables you to use Airprint to wifi printer directly without going via a computer. I am now printing to my Canon without any wires from Pages, Mail and lots of others!